Clothes-washer.



G. F. POGG.

CLOTHES WASHER.

APPLICATION rxpnn APR. 22, 1913.

w /M m 1 MW h fi UNITED STATES PATNT OFEIGE.

CHARLES F. Food, or NEW YGRK, n. "a, Ass cnon as rose SPECIALTY COMPANY, mo, or new YORK, N. r, A CORPORATION on NEW YORK.

CLOTHES-WASHER.

To all whom it may cone-em Be it known that 1, (Julianne F. Foss, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Vashers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to washing dev ces of the ClOtllGS-POHllClGl type, and the ob ect of the invention is to provide a washer of this character which shall be strong and durable, easily operated, and highly efficient in the cleansing process.

The invention consists in certain novel features and details of construction and ar rangeinent, by which the above objects are attained, to be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and show an approved form of the invention.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the conical head and portion of the handle, showing the face on which the air-valve is located. Fig. 2 is a corresponding axial section taken on the line 2-2 in Fig. l and partly in elevation. Fig. 3 is a view of the lower or open face of the head. Fig. f is a plan or top view of the head. Fig. 5 is an elevation corresponding to the upper portion of Fig. 1, with the protective hood for the air-valve broken away to show the valve.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

A is a conical shell forming the head of the washer, open on the lower face except as covered by a strong screen B of wire-netting, grille or openwork disk, securely fastened to the skirt or flange A of the head. Extending axially from the apex or neck A of the cone to the netting B, is a tapered socket C securely fastened by solder or otherwise to such neck at the upper end and to the center of the disk or netting B at the lower end as at b. The socket receives the correspondingly tapered end of a staff or handle M by which the cone is raised and lowered as usual in the operation of pounding the clothes.

At the neck A the cone is closed interiorly by the socket C, and at a high point below such junction is an aperture a covered by an outwardly opening valve D, shown as of the hinged or clack-valve type, adapted to open Specification 02 Letters Patent. Application fi1ed April 22, 1913.

Patented 0a. 27, 1914.. Serial No. '?82,8D0.

and permit air to escape from the interior of the cone and to close and prevent ingress of air or water through the aperture a from the exterior.

D is a shield or hood protecting the valve from injury and providing sufficient space for its operation.

Within the shell or cone A and inclosing the socket C but separated therefrom by an open annular space, is a tubular brace shown as a double cone E F, secured at the lower flared end E to the disk B as at e, and at the upper flared end F to the interior of the shell. The upper portion F is provided with a number of holes f through which air or water may pass to the upper interior portion of the shell and thence through the valve D beneath the hood D.

In operating upon the immersed clothes to be washed, the downward blow forces water into the interior of the shell, correspondingly driving out a portion of the imprisoned air through the valve and thus producing a partial Vacuum in the shell. The suction thus induced tends to lift the clothes and afford the desired agitation. This action is found to be highly effective in the cleansing process.

The openwork disk or wire netting B is important in that its bars or cross-wires offer a multiplicity of closely located points of impact on the clothes while permitting the water to pass freely through, thus avoid ing any tendency of the clothes to rise within the shell and fill the latter detrimentally. Another important function performed by the disk B is in strengthening the structure and affording means for securely fastening the lower end of the socket C and brace E F, thereby stiffening the washer and greatly lessening the danger of fracture or derangement under the rough usage to which implements of this class are necessarily subjected.

Sheet metal is employed for the shell and its connected parts, except the netting, the forms and efiicient bracing of the several portions permitting the use of such material. without sacrificing strength or durability, but other materials may be employed. The forms and proportions may be varied, and other types of valves substituted for the valve D.

I claim 1. A device of the character set forth. comprising a conical shell, a double conical member therein, the upper portion of Which is provided With openings, a socket member extending axially through said double conical member and secured at the apex of said conical shell, and an o-penWork disk secured Within the base of said shell and bearing against and secured to the lower ends of to said disk, said shell having an aperture 15 near such apex, a tubular brace inclosing said socket and-secured to the interior of'said shell and to said disk and having openings in its upper portion, and an outwardly open-. ing valve on said shell controlling said aperture.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I affix my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

' HARLES F. FOGG. l Vitnesses:

HENRY L. WASHBURN,

CHARLES L. GLELAND.

Copies of this patent may be obtain d for five cents each, by addressing the Commiss oner of Eatents. Washington, D. C. 

